- Joined
- Oct 31, 2010
- Messages
- 18,536
- Reaction score
- 2,438
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Undisclosed
Quoted for posterity.
Your post is nothingness, BDBoop. That didn't respond to any of my points and obscures the point you think you're making.
Quoted for posterity.
I never said that it did, Wake.
Look up the definition of figurative and apply it.
So when terrorists hate the united states, their hate does not create negativity? When person X hates person Y, their hate based treatment of person Y doesn't create negativity?
I disagree. One can know and understand and hate only if one rejects that knowledge and understanding. If you accept what you know and understand, you don't hate. For example, I hate a sociopathic murderer when I reject the knowledge that he doesn't make decisions like me. I don't hate him when I accept that knowledge.
What I meant was that hatred can be useful until the negative it creates overpowers the positive.It seemed that way.
Right. When I or anyone else says hate is toxic, we mean hate harms the person who holds it. I would say that hate is just as objectively toxic as depression and sadness are.Figurative is not objective. So long as you at it is figurative, we are go.
Right. And the hate of a terrorist causes his violence. In other words, hate causes negativity.Concepts, emotions, and beliefs do not birth concepts, emotions, and beliefs. I believe in cause and effect when it comes to such intangibility, not creation.
I concede the onion point, but when I talked about understanding, I had hatred of people and their actions, thoughts, etc. in mind. Although I don't really understand how people "hate" inanimate objects.Respectfully, I see it differently. I don't see how it is true that if you accept and understand everything, you cannot hate. With the sociopath scenario I am a little doubtful. Not everyone would hate the sociopath in your way and why. I can perfectly understand and accept onions, yet hate them. I know what they are, what they do, and what they dream (lol).
This is difficult for me to believe if only for the fact that understanding and knowledge consistently kills hatred in every generation. For example, it's more difficult for the white child of a racist to hate blacks if he grows up with black people and understands how similar they are to him. Similarly, many formerly homophobic parents find it more difficult to hate gays when their child turns out to be gay (so long as those parents accept what they've learned).Same with sociopaths. I do not have to know everything about them because it doesn't matter. It does not matter to me what they think, eat, etc. What matters is what they have/are/are trying to do.
thanks. the same goes for you.I respect you for your civility and thoughtful posts.